What plants NOT to plant

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This time of year we all get Giddy about flowering plants, when we see them advertised online.
We need a thread about what plants NOT to plhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmQlFAhjSnA YOUR neck of the woods, it is probably invasive.
Sorry, couldn't link this, but here is the list, anyway.
10 plants you should not NEVER grow in your garden
INvasive plants to avoid (UK):
1) Hellebores
2) Vibernum
3) Lungwort
4) Clematis Montana
5) Bistorta
6) Columbine (NATIVE in MY yard and it behaves itself HERE)
7) GiANT SUNFLOWERS (NATIVE in MY yard and it behaves itself HERE)
8) Spanish Bluebells (Virginia Bluebells are Native here)
9) Hydrangea Annabelle--which was discovered several decades ago a few hours south of ME, and behaves itself here
10)Wild Geranium--aGAIN THIS one is native to my yard

1) Foxglove
2) Coral Bells Buy HEUCHERA HYBRIDS, Heuchera Americana
3) Russian Sage (I grew this and it died)
4) Hollyhocks--My friend has grown these successfully in FULL SUN and she doesn't water them, and they do well
5) Beebalm -- plant Jacob Cline cultivar, Mashall's Delight or Raspberry Wine
6) Obedient Plant, native but Highly Invasive
7) Fancy Echinacea Hybrids--Plant Echinacea Purpurea, purple and native and Will survive your winter
8) Plume Poppy
9) Lily of the Valley

 

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10 DANGEROUS plants
1) Giant hogweed
2) Singing Nettle
3) Poison Oak
4) Gympie Gympie (comes from Australia, the land of the most poisonous snakes in the world
5) Spurge
6) Sago Palm
7) MIlkweed
8) Pencil Cactus
9) Burning Bush--ALMOST as invasive as Callery Pear
***The little blueberry that I planted at DD's house, TOP HAT, also goes red in the Fall
10)Oleander--warm planet extremely toxic

***BUY Poison Ivy soap and keep in in a plastic soapbox in your bath. You suds it up and Leave it on, so when you come in contact with many of these and your skin rashes.
NOT a cure all for ALL of these plants. Use when in contact with poison ivy, poison oak and whatever plants in your yard always causes rash--list can be long for many people.

 

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Groundcovers to avoid.

1) Yellow Archangel
2) Snow on the Mountain
3) Periwinkle--Vinca
4) Pachysandra
5) Creeping Jenny
6) English Ivy--this will eat through the mortar on your brick house
7) Lily of the Valley--Mine has SLOWLY spread around the NW corner of the house--I think the summer gets too dry for it
8) Sweet Woodruff
9) Fern--MINE only grows on the north side of my house--somebody else started it there--and pulls back during the summer when it's too dry.
You need Shady AND Wet to grow this well
10)Euononymus Winter Creeper

Sometimes, like my mint patch, depends on the moisture and shade of where you plant .
STILL, it's not fun to have to remove unwanted plants when you really want to do another gardening job.